In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. Susan Sontag americainventpast Change image and share on social
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag activelylunaticmad Change image and share on social
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. Susan Sontag incongruousjuxtapositionquotation Change image and share on social
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag accumulatephotographstrategy Change image and share on social
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. Susan Sontag freezemeltmoment share on social
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag detailfixflash Change image and share on social
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag alienauthoritariandisease Change image and share on social
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Susan Sontag americaamericancommit Change image and share on social
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. Susan Sontag bourgeoisdisaffectionmilitant Change image and share on social
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. Susan Sontag attacheblameevil Change image and share on social
